The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) is probing the fatal shooting of a man by the police at the intersection of Duke and East Queen streets in downtown Kingston.

The man has been identified as Devon Lee Mattocks, 39, of Bayshore Park, Kingston. A special corporal, who is assigned to Harman Barracks, has been admitted to hospital with a stab wound arising from the incident.

Police say they were on duty on West Queen Street when they accosted Mattocks and attempted to search him.

The cops say Mattocks drew a knife and stabbed one of them in the chest and ran. He was chased and confronted at the intersection of East Queen and Duke streets where, the police say, he was shot during a tussle.

The cops say they later realised that Mattocks was mentally challenged.

But persons who claim to have been eyewitnesses to the incident say the police acted unprofessionally and killed the man in cold blood.

"Him was a madman who always around the place. Them shoot him inna him back when him a walk away from them and then claim say him stab dem," said one woman. "Them wicked policeman deh is one reason why them don't get help from the public."

Mattocks was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital by police from the Kingston Central Police Station who were not involved in the shooting incident, the alleged eyewitnesses claimed.

Friday, some workers at the hospital were angry at what they described as the callous regard police have for citizens. The workers complained that the cops dumped the man's body at the front of the hospital and left.

"It is not the first time they have done this. Recently we had to use three gallons of bleach to wash away blood from the bodies of men shot by the police and left on the ground. This is not right," one worker told the Observer.

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